The bigotry of Sotomayer: Defense of the Indefensible: Update - dems reduced to lying about this issue.

FACT CHECK: Don't quote Sotomayor on that, Senator

WASHINGTON (AP) - In endorsing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy did some creative rewriting of history. And he put quote marks around it.

Trying to head off criticism of a controversial comment, Leahy misquoted Sotomayor's own words in kicking off the second day of her confirmation hearings.

Sotomayor's public comments are as much a part of the hearings as her lengthy judicial record. Here's a look at some of the claims made Tuesday about those comments, and the facts.

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LEAHY SAID: "You said that, quote, you 'would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would reach wise decisions.'"

THE FACTS: If that's all Sotomayor said, the quote would barely have mattered to opponents of her nomination. The actual quote, delivered in a 2001 speech to law students at the University of California at Berkeley, was: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

Leahy's revision dropped the controversial part of the phrase, the part that has attracted charges of reverse racism.

Sotomayor said her words have been misunderstood. She said she intended to tell students that their experiences would enrich the legal system. But she softened her language Tuesday, say that no ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in judging.

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So... does any reader here believe this revisionst history wasn't planned?

Leahy is a scumbag. Always has been. That he's reduced to lying to attempt, no matter how badly, to cover up Sotomayer's bigotry speaks for itself.

That said, with the recent set up and scamming of the not-terribly-important hispanic vote by Tim Leavitt, racism of all kinds has reared it's ugly head.

For many, they're convinced that only those of us light-complected (that is, "white") can be racist. The absurdity of such a claim is made clear by the racist occupying the White House.

A bigot has been described as a pejorative term to describe a person who is obstinately devoted to prejudices, especially when these views are either challenged, or proven to be false or not universally applicable or acceptable.

This, of course, leads us to yet another in the series of disastrous, racist and incompetent personnel choices our president has made for his Administration.

There are certain aspects of this moronic appointment that are universally accepted. One is, perhaps, the most infamous phrase ever uttered by any sitting judge, anywhere.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Were I questioning her, I would ask this:

"So, Judge Sotomayer, tell us... about that "wise Latina woman" (Is there some other kind of Latina?) speech... is the reverse also true?

Are there situations where a white male with the richness of HIS experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn't lived that life?"

"And what might those situations be?"

That question will never be asked of this woman, because the leftists running the show believe they're making political points by appointing such a racist to the highest court in the land.

"Racist?"

Yes, racist. As racist as Bull Connor and his German Sheppards. I don't even need to explore what would not be happening to a white male nominee had he said such a thing... and the double standard is despicable.

Racism is racism. The purveyors of racism are not determined by any particular characteristic. There are black, brown, white, male and female racists. Sotomayer, whether she acknowledges it or not... whether she even knows it or not, is one of them.

She is a self-admitted product of the "affirmative action" state. She has reached her various levels of incompetence not because of any judicial stardom, but because she was the token hispanic.

And THIS is who we want sitting on the highest court in the land? THIS is the best the empty suit in the White House could do?

Seriously?

Suddenly, Harriet Miers looks like a brilliant choice in comparison. And the people of this country will be made to suffer for it.
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More warm and fuzzy incompetence from the Obama Administration.

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As the current occupant of the White House elbows Jimmy Carter aside as the worst president in the last century (or more) I'm comforted by the fact that he's hired a criminal to run our treasury, scores of lobbyists in direct violation of one of the many promises he's broken as part of the bait and switch that was the Obama Campaign... and then.... THIS waste of skin.

Truth being stranger than fiction, we actually DO have an Inspector General of the Treasury... although this particular version seems to be the most ignorant twit in government, and is much more focused on her nails than her job.

In this YouTube video, she's questioned by a DEMOCRAT congressman.... First-term (anti-bailout candidate) Democrat Alan Grayson (D-FL 8) and, well... watch it and weep.

I know I did.

H/T to Tom.

Fascinating treatise on racism by a black columnist from Kansas City.

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You really do learn something new every day, and this column actually gives me hope... at some small, deep, dark level... that honesty still exists in some in the media.

This column is noteworthy for four reasons:

First, it's written by a newspaper columnist, a member of the "makes my leg tingle" media that threw out any pretense of fairness or objectivity in their increasingly admitted, over the top efforts to get the empty suit elected.

Second, it's written by a black columnist who is, quite apparently, able to write without putting hands to keyboard and viewing life through a "Black versus Them" prism filter.

Third, it's a snapshot of reality... a harsh reality to be sure, but reality never the less.

Fourth, the absolutely brutal and directly on target assessment of our president's election:

Oh, we might run the careless and stupid out of a job from time to time. We might even play a role in getting another half-black, raised-by-white-people man elected to the presidency.

We never hear about the "white" part of our president. We only hear about the black.

In the politics of race, the victimhood and the color are virtues to be extolled. As I look around, I've discovered that every other race, and, of course, the opposite gender (And even those making their artificial attempt to change genders... or assume some identity with BOTH genders) rates as a minority.

Only in America does such stupidity exist. Only in America, for example, can we call a numerically superior group (women) a "minority."

Up is down... and down is up.

Recently, commenters here have made the claim that I am "racist." I must tell you, I am not possessed of either racial or gender "pride." I freely admit that I am a heterosexual white male, the only unprotected racial and gender label in America today.

I don't care that Obama is half black, although until now, this is the first mention I've ever read in the MSM of that fact in this manner. The millions of times (rhetorically) I've ever heard Obama described as eliminated the "white" potion of his blood line, as if it has no significance whatsoever.

Oddly enough, I can't disagree with that. His white half, unmentioned and treated much like leprosy, shouldn't make any difference.

Nor should the black.

The constant, pounding reminders of that we already know down to our DNA level, that is, that the president is "black," disavows any white blood or white involvement.

While we are constantly reminded of his black racial bloodline, we rarely hear about the thing with the greatest impact on our president's life: his white-bread upbringing.

Every reference to Obama's "half race" cements the politics of victimization and division.

We will please note that former president's races were not referred to in every other sentence. If that was not important for them... then it should not be important for this president, either.

Mr. Whitlock has nailed it far better than I, and is to be commended for his courage.

Unfortunately, I have no doubt, given the left's politics of character assassination, that he will be made to suffer for his stark views of the reality confronting us.

COMMENTARY

Black athletes shouldn’t be excused for racial hypocrisy

By JASON WHITLOCK
The Kansas City Star

There’s a backup tight end for the Dallas Cowboys who is doing everything he can possibly do to invite self-promotional controversy.

He started his own “television” network on the Internet and uses the platform to stir up trouble. Early this year, the Cowboys fined him $22,000 after he recorded a rap song/video that used multiple derogatory terms to describe black people and gay people.

Now, in the past week, he debuted a video showcasing the “Black Olympics,” a Kool-Aid-, fried chicken- and watermelon-eating contest between himself and his brother, a rookie free agent with the Seattle Seahawks.

His name is Martellus Bennett. He’s just 22. He’s black. He played at Texas A&M. He’s accomplished next to nothing in his brief NFL career. He is best known for buffoonery on YouTube’s Marty B TV.

For the most part, Martellus Bennett is harmless.

I am not easily offended. Perhaps it’s my size and affinity for food, but I take virtually no offense to good-naturedly delivered jokes about food stereotypes. Everybody I know — black or white — loves properly seasoned fried chicken. Watermelon is extremely healthy and very tasty. And it wasn’t until I was in my 30s that I kicked my Kool-Aid habit.

When people e-mailed me on Friday asking what I thought of Bennett’s “Black Olympics,” I didn’t know what to think.

I wasn’t offended. I was sad. I grew even sadder throughout Friday and Saturday as it became apparent to me that Bennett’s grab for controversy was being ignored.

I’ve reluctantly made peace with the fact that black comedians and rappers can make millions of dollars shouting the N-word and lampooning/promoting negative black stereotypes.

If Barack Obama made use of the N-word a death-penalty offense, commercial rap music would disappear and nearly every black comedian would have to rewrite their material. My point is I understand the economic impact of outlawing our (black) self-hate.

What I don’t understand is when and why it became OK for a black athlete to milk the same cow.

I assumed that Bennett’s “Black Olympics” would cause an uproar among the groups that claim to stand against just this kind of racial exploitation.

Instead, I’m again reminded that we hold white people to a higher standard of behavior than we hold ourselves.

I say that because you know damn well if Jason Witten had recorded and televised the “Black Olympics,” CNN would’ve aborted coverage of Michael Jackson’s month-long death to perform a thorough analysis of Witten’s entire life.

Witten, a Pro Bowler, would likely be looking for another job.

Witten, of course, is white. And as a white person, we expect him to have enough common sense, decency and respect for his fellow man to concern himself with playing football rather than promoting a web TV show with silly racial stereotypes.

Pardon my sarcasm. But I’ve grown irate.

The blatant hypocrisy we’ve learned to embrace is not only sickening, but it’s also self-destructive.

I said this during the Don Imus fiasco, and it’s worthy of repeating: In the history of mankind, no human being has ever received more respect than he’s given himself.

That bit of history is never going to change. Never.

There is no special subset of human beings capable of treating you better than you treat yourself.

So if Martellus Bennett gets to hold a fried-chicken Olympics and call us the N-word on YouTube without serious objection, so does everyone else.

Oh, we might run the careless and stupid out of a job from time to time. We might even play a role in getting another half-black, raised-by-white-people man elected to the presidency.

But the grassroots, substantive progress we’re looking for will continue to elude us.

People see you exactly as you see yourself. The rules of respect are the same for everyone. How you portray and refer to yourself will determine how you’re viewed by outsiders. We have the power of self-determination. We too often fail to use it or misuse it.

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The scum of the left practicing the politics of destruction.

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The empty suit living in the White House is attempting to pawn off a racist bigot with limited legal skills as our next United States Supreme Court Justice.

At the end of the day, I wouldn't let either the clueless idiot running the show OR his token hispanic run an elevator for me... but that is for another post. This post is to point out yet another in the series of leftist political character assassinations against someone they disagree with (Joe the Plumber immediately comes to mind) here, one of the lead plaintiffs that Sotomayer practiced her peculiar brand of bigotry against.

Her bigotry precludes her from holding any position of authority anywhere, let along a supreme court justice position; and in this case, this firefighter, a victim of institutional fear and racism who's case was tossed like last week's newspaper by this "latina women are wiser than white men" bigot will be testifying at Sotomayer's "go-thru-the-motions" confirmation.

The article speaks for itself, as does this, yet another in the long list of scummy efforts by the left to silence opposition speak for itself.

2010 can't get here soon enough for me.



Posted on Friday, July 10, 2009

Sotomayor backers urge reporters to probe New Haven firefighter

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By Michael Doyle and David Lightman McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who's at the center of Sotomayor's most controversial ruling.
On the eve of Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the "troubled and litigious work history" of firefighter Frank Ricci.

This is opposition research: a constant shadow on Capitol Hill.

"The whole business of getting Supreme Court nominees through the process has become bloodsport," said Gary Rose, a government and politics professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn.

On Friday, citing in an e-mail "Frank Ricci's troubled and litigious work history," the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way drew reporters' attention to Ricci's past. Other advocates for Sotomayor have discreetly urged journalists to pursue similar story lines.

Specifically, the advocates have zeroed in on an earlier 1995 lawsuit Ricci filed claiming the city of New Haven discriminated against him because he's dyslexic. The advocates cite other Hartford Courant stories from the same era recounting how Ricci was fired by a fire department in Middletown, Conn., allegedly, Ricci said at the time, because of safety concerns he raised.
The Middletown-area fire department was subsequently fined for safety violations, but the Connecticut Department of Labor dismissed Ricci's retaliation complaint.

No People for the American Way officials could be reached Friday to speak on the record about the press campaign.

"To go after so sympathetic a plaintiff as Frank Ricci . . . is a new low in the politics of personal destruction," said Roger Pilon, the director of the libertarian Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies. "If they were smart, they'd keep a low profile."

Ricci, though, has his own advocates, including conservative commentators such as CNN's Lou Dobbs and Fox's Sean Hannity.

Nor is he the only Supreme Court confirmation witness to receive sharp elbows. In 1991, for instance, then-Senate Minority Leader Alan Simpson of Wyoming warned that witness Anita Hill would be "injured and destroyed and belittled and hounded and harassed" if she testified against nominee Clarence Thomas. Hill was preparing to testify that she'd been sexually harassed by Thomas.


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Hispanics get played: Leavitt scams an endorsement.

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I've had a couple of concerns over Tim Leavitt's use of the race card as a campaign tactic; as blatant and underhanded approach to electioneering as I've ever seen... in fact, I've seen nothing like it since David Barnett bought Steve Stuart for a cool $100G.

Of course, this is why Leavitt pulled this hate crime stunt, to suck the politically naive into believing they are anything but tools for his election... much like the far left was used, and then kicked to the curb as Obama scammed them into supporting him, and then proceeded to forget they existed.

Well, local hispanics, apparently lacking in any particular degree of political sophistication, have bit, and bit hard. Little do they know that Leavitt has manipulated them into this public embarrassment.

As a result, Leavitt has nailed down the illegal alien vote with a sledgehammer.

But then, I'm just a cynic. What do I know?

Not much, except this: this endorsement is an embarrassment, and it will do absolutely nothing to help Leavitt get elected.

And as his campaign roles on, that's certainly a good thing.

"My candidate.... my candidate.... my kingdom for a remotely decent candidate!"

Vancouver Councilman Tim Leavitt Attracts The Latino Vote

Latinos in Vancouver are moving to demonstrate that their vote is not one to be alienated. With the assistance of National Latina civil rights leader, Maria Rodriguez-Salazar of Vancouver, WA, they are determined to make their vote count.

After years of being ignored and the success of President Obama’s election, Latinos locally are sensing that they finally count in the political discourse of this country.

The demographics of Vancouver are changing. Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in Vancouver and in our country. In this year’s political season every vote will count but most importantly who in the future will be leading Vancouver’s government and be inclusive when it comes to Latino Affairs. So what will it take to win the hearts and votes of Latinos in Vancouver? Ask Vancouver Latino Leaders.

Event: Vancouver Latino Leaders Press Conference - Vancouver’s Latino Vote

When: Monday July 13th, 2009

Time: 10:00am

Where: The Steps of Vancouver City Hall, Vancouver, WA